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Elizabeth Goddard's Easy Slow-Cooker Lasagna

Elizabeth
Goddard is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than twenty-five
romance novels and counting, including the romantic mystery, THE CAMERA NEVER
LIES--a 2011 Carol Award winner. She is a double finalist in the 2016 Daphne Du
Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense for her novels BURIED and
BACKFIRE in the Mountain Cove series. A 7th generation Texan, Elizabeth
graduated from North Texas State University with a Bachelor of Science in
Computer Science and worked in high-level software sales for several years
before retiring to home school her children and fulfill her dreams of writing
full-time. She currently makes her home in Minnesota with her husband and
children.To
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Beth’s Easy Slow-cooker Lasagna

A Note from Beth: I especially love this recipe because the lasagna is moist
and doesn’t dry out with baking. I used
to be terrified of lasagna—it seemed so complicated. But I started making it
and discovered it’s as easy as making spaghetti with sauce. Plus, variety is
the spice of life. Once you learn what lasagna’s all about, you can experiment
and/or use what you have in your pantry, mostly.

6 whole wheat lasagna noodles (you don’t have to cook them
ahead of time and you don’t have to buy no bake. Also, if you prefer regular
noodles instead of whole wheat, go for it.)

1 pint of ricotta cheese (more or less, to taste, or use
cottage cheese)

2 cups of mozzarella cheese (more or less, to taste)

1 cup of Parmesan cheese (again, to taste)

Spaghetti sauce of preference. (Sometimes this is two cans
of crushed tomatoes seasoned with basil. Other times I brown beef and/or
sausage and make marinara sauce. Just make a big sauce pan full so there’s
plenty)

Chopped kale (optional). This is kind of a fun addition and
makes me think I’m trying to be healthy by getting a super food into the
lasagna. The kids thinks it’s parsley or the green flecks you sometimes see in pasta.
You can’t taste it.

Now, you’re ready to go. In a medium size bowl, stir together the ricotta cheese
(or cottage cheese) with one cup of the mozzarella and half the Parmesan cheese. Set aside. Pour enough sauce on the bottom of the slow cooker to
cover it. Layer noodles. (I put two down in the center and then
break another up to fill in the spaces since noodles don’t exactly come shaped
for slow-cookers) Then drop a few dollops of the ricotta cheese mixture
over the noodles and press down to cover them completely if possible, the best
you can. The cheese will melt and spread out even more with the cooking. Pour half the sauce on. Layer noodles over the sauce and then last of the
ricotta. Your last layer should be sauce.

Set your crockpot on high for four hours or so. You might
have to play around with it—slow cookers vary, but I find about four hours on
high does the trick. Check it at 3 hours or 3 and a half to be sure. The last step is to spread the remaining mozzarella and Parmesan
over the top and let the hot lasagna melt the cheese. Then let it sit for at
least 20 minutes or until slightly cooled so that when you cut it, the layers
stay in place.

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